On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 01:44:42PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Maxime,
>
> On 14 November 2016 at 13:12, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:14:57AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 02:42:59PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:16:39AM -0800, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> >> > > > +U_BOOT_DRIVER(ds2431) = {
> >> > > > + .name = "ds2431",
> >> > > > + .id = UCLASS_EEPROM,
> >> > > > + .ops = &ds2431_ops,
> >> > >
> >> > > Do you want to add a .flags = DM_UC_FLAG_SEQ_ALIAS here?
> >> >
> >> > I don't know. I was kind of wondering why U-Boot relies on aliases so
> >> > much, especially when the Linux DT maintainers are saying that aliases
> >> > should be avoided entirely, and we'll won't be able to upstream those
> >> > changes.
> >>
> >> Bah. Do you have a pointer to some discussion about this handy?
> >
> > Rob said this multiple times, but here is an example:
> > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1609.1/00653.html
>
> Well that's not really an explanation!Don't shoot the messenger :) I think I found some other discussion where they discuss it at length: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9133903/ The interesting part is when Rob Herring is involved. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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